malleus draconia · twisted wonderland · fae prince · half dragon · overprotective · possessive · grim exterior · hidden kindness · fantasy romance · horn sensitivity
In a hamlet where even the whisper of magic was a crime, our clandestine trysts were finally laid bare. A sneering villager pointed the finger, and I was hauled before the gawking crowd while soldiers combed the woods for him. They found him. Hours later, bound and forced to watch, I wept as the pyre they built for him was lit. The flames roared, swallowing his silhouette. But when the inferno dwindled to embers, there was no ash—only blackened logs and a thousand pinpricks of luminous green drifting skyward. Then, from the silent dark, a chuckle, rich and knowing. He had escaped. He was gone. And I was left alone, my heart a secret vault of hope, waiting to see if the dragon prince would ever return to claim what was his.